This is one of the songs that confused me at first. I think a lot of Melora's lyrics are very subjective, and she writes them especially like that. As a true performer, I believe she writes a song that inspires cryptic thought in her fans without giving too much mystery away about the thoughts that inspire her lyrics.
However, I also believe most of her songs tie to a certain central theme that may not be easily discerned without looking at certain symbolism. In a lot of Melora's songs, I believe she draws inspiration from real life events, without being specific.
Considering however that most of the lyrics seen above are actually wrong though, I don't think I have to necessarily put too much thought into my interpretation if that is the standard I have to follow.
I think this song could possibly be about abortion, as others have mentioned above. This song could possibly be inspired by Gianna Jessens situation, or otherwise from the history of instillation abortions, and, this is going out on a limb, but possibly under the influence of the catholic church, in which many young women who fell pregnant were forced to have abortios against their will. There's simply too many references to this for me to think this song is about otherwise. I'll explain my thoughts below.
-"There lived a little girl who loved to bake / the only thing she made was cake" - A bun in the oven perhaps?
-"She used a rudimentary substance for / An ingredient that she could pour / Into a chalice she carved out of stone / Her only friend, it was a big black crow / That flew with love / He would fly high above / Look back at her below" - Salt is a basic substance found commonly in nature - the chalice is her womb, and her "only friend" is a big black crow, My mother, and a lot of other women around her age who went to catholic schools would often report of the nuns whisking away the girls who would perform "immoral" acts such as insubordination, sex, and pregnancy into solitude to "council and help" these girls into making the right decisions in the eyes of the lord and the outside world.
Nuns would often be referred to as crows because of their black and white habits and savagery. "Flying with love" could refer to the traditional contradiction of the whole "God is Love" quote that was prominently displayed in many schools above the blackboards in a classroom; the same room where nuns would whip the students who were not learning to their satisfaction with a cane.
The crow flying "high above" could reference the spiritual superiority of a nun making the decision over a 17 year old girl having an abortion and her feeling of powerlessness about the whole situation. I mean, a girl of the church bringing up a baby until adulthood without a father is much more shameful than a girl disappearing for a couple of months, and coming back a broken shell of a human, with a void in her abdomen in which life was growing before.
"Only 17 and swollen up with pride" - pride being the consequence of a sexual act leading to pregnancy...
"She makes green fire in a tunnel of thorns" - Well, you got the lyrics wrong up there... Fire in a tunnel in the woods? Listen to the song again. Thorns and woods are two separate words. But seriously - the tunnel of thorns must be the womb, and the fire must be the saline solution. I've read that a saline solution "burns" the foetus from the inside and out.
But, as I said before, the lyrics are subjective. This is just my interpretation.
@Feabdomen Intersting idea. I don't think it has anything to do with abortion though. They were just having fun with a theme of ideas based off of some simple science. See my full explanation above.
@Feabdomen Intersting idea. I don't think it has anything to do with abortion though. They were just having fun with a theme of ideas based off of some simple science. See my full explanation above.
This is one of the songs that confused me at first. I think a lot of Melora's lyrics are very subjective, and she writes them especially like that. As a true performer, I believe she writes a song that inspires cryptic thought in her fans without giving too much mystery away about the thoughts that inspire her lyrics.
However, I also believe most of her songs tie to a certain central theme that may not be easily discerned without looking at certain symbolism. In a lot of Melora's songs, I believe she draws inspiration from real life events, without being specific.
Considering however that most of the lyrics seen above are actually wrong though, I don't think I have to necessarily put too much thought into my interpretation if that is the standard I have to follow.
I think this song could possibly be about abortion, as others have mentioned above. This song could possibly be inspired by Gianna Jessens situation, or otherwise from the history of instillation abortions, and, this is going out on a limb, but possibly under the influence of the catholic church, in which many young women who fell pregnant were forced to have abortios against their will. There's simply too many references to this for me to think this song is about otherwise. I'll explain my thoughts below.
-"There lived a little girl who loved to bake / the only thing she made was cake" - A bun in the oven perhaps?
-"She used a rudimentary substance for / An ingredient that she could pour / Into a chalice she carved out of stone / Her only friend, it was a big black crow / That flew with love / He would fly high above / Look back at her below" - Salt is a basic substance found commonly in nature - the chalice is her womb, and her "only friend" is a big black crow, My mother, and a lot of other women around her age who went to catholic schools would often report of the nuns whisking away the girls who would perform "immoral" acts such as insubordination, sex, and pregnancy into solitude to "council and help" these girls into making the right decisions in the eyes of the lord and the outside world.
Nuns would often be referred to as crows because of their black and white habits and savagery. "Flying with love" could refer to the traditional contradiction of the whole "God is Love" quote that was prominently displayed in many schools above the blackboards in a classroom; the same room where nuns would whip the students who were not learning to their satisfaction with a cane. The crow flying "high above" could reference the spiritual superiority of a nun making the decision over a 17 year old girl having an abortion and her feeling of powerlessness about the whole situation. I mean, a girl of the church bringing up a baby until adulthood without a father is much more shameful than a girl disappearing for a couple of months, and coming back a broken shell of a human, with a void in her abdomen in which life was growing before.
"Only 17 and swollen up with pride" - pride being the consequence of a sexual act leading to pregnancy...
"She makes green fire in a tunnel of thorns" - Well, you got the lyrics wrong up there... Fire in a tunnel in the woods? Listen to the song again. Thorns and woods are two separate words. But seriously - the tunnel of thorns must be the womb, and the fire must be the saline solution. I've read that a saline solution "burns" the foetus from the inside and out.
But, as I said before, the lyrics are subjective. This is just my interpretation.
Gross, huh? :-P
@Feabdomen Intersting idea. I don't think it has anything to do with abortion though. They were just having fun with a theme of ideas based off of some simple science. See my full explanation above.
@Feabdomen Intersting idea. I don't think it has anything to do with abortion though. They were just having fun with a theme of ideas based off of some simple science. See my full explanation above.